Re: [HTCondor-users] Change MaxJobs limit on a running dagman job

[Jerome Samson <jeromes@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks, that's a good turnaround. It works fine for me so I will avoid 
using the "DAG file over shared file system" method.
And so we can tell that it works also on 7.8.5 system.

Best,

Jerome
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On 04/29/2013 03:31 PM, Nathan Panike wrote:
> Jerome:
>
> Here is what you do (if you are in a unix system):
>
> 1. condor_hold<DAGMan job id>
> 2. condor_q -l<DAGMan job id>  | grep Arguments | sed 's/^Arguments = //'>  args
> 3. Now edit args so that MaxJobs is the limit that you want. (So just
> change "-MaxJobs 500" to "-MaxJobs 200" or whatever you want.
> 4. condor_qedit<DAGMan job id>  Arguments "$(cat args)"
> 5. condor_release<DAGMan job id>
>
> (I developed this solution on a version 7.9.4 system, if that matters)
>
> Nathan Panike
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:50:23AM +0200, Jerome Samson wrote:
>    
> > Thanks for your answer, I was hoping to be able to do so without
> > editing the dag file to remove any issue with file access or UAC.
> > Anyway, I'll try to do it your way but it would be great to be able
> > to change arguments directly.
> > Best,
> >
> > Jerome
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> >
> > On 04/26/2013 04:53 PM, R. Kent Wenger wrote:
> >      
> > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Jerome Samson wrote:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > I would like to change the max job limit that is defined on a
> > > > dagman job.
> > > >
> > > > I've read the following thread which gives some indication to
> > > > handle this:
> > > > https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/htcondor-users/2010-October/msg00036.shtml
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In my case I'm trying:
> > > > 1. to hold the dagman job
> > > > 2. change its "Arguments" value
> > > > 3. release the job.
> > > >
> > > > My problem is to replace the "-MaxJobs xxx" part in the
> > > > "Arguments" attributes.
> > > >          
> > > Hmm, I'll have to think a bit about changing the arguments correctly.
> > >
> > > This won't do you any good for this job, but for the future you
> > > might want to define maxjobs in a per-DAG config file.  Then if
> > > you need to change the maxjobs setting you can just do
> > > condor_hold/edit config file/condor_release.
> > >
> > > Kent Wenger
> > > CHTC Team
> > >        
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